High winds caused damage at the Arkansas Music Pavilion Saturday night.
Photo: Todd Gill, Flyer staff
A thunderstorm with high winds passed through Fayetteville Saturday afternoon causing sporadic damage across the area.
Trees and limbs were reported down in neighborhoods along Garland Avenue
One area hit hard was the Arkansas Music Pavilion at the Washington County Fairgrounds. The tent structure above the stage was blown to the ground and several portable bathroom units were scattered across the lawn area.
AMP general manager Brian Crowne said officials were still assessing the damage Sunday morning, but didn’t expect the damage to have any effect on any upcoming events.
The inaugural Taste of Country Festival, set for Friday, Aug. 17, is the next scheduled concert at the venue. Miranda Lambert, The Pistol Annies, Randy Houser and several other acts are set to perform during the event.
Other upcoming concerts include Pat Benetar on Aug. 19 and The Avett Brothers on Oct. 16.
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How can there be trees down along Garland Ave, when the city bulldozed them all to widen the roadway?
The Garland Ave. widening—Highway 112—is a state, not City, project. And it says “neighborhoods along Garland Ave.” There are side streets. I live on one of them.
To bad it didn’t blow down some of the power lines on Garland… Maybe then they would have considered burying those eyesores while they completed the project.
I went and looked at the tent and I dont see how they can plan on saving it. Truss is all sheared and mangled and the fabric has big rips in it. I guess they just plan on having the upcoming shows out in an open stage setting, which is prettt lame sauce. Be interesting to see what happens with all of this. Unfortunately for the WAC they were pretty much only invested in the tent structure. Brian crowne dumped that just in time.
They’ve had open stage shows before. The Hank Williams Jr. concert in April was one of them.
Photo: Janie B. Photography
If you have a big open space, I don’t see the point in having a tent. I would much rather see someone in the setting depicted above than underneath a tent.
Also, overturned porta-potties make me shudder.
i’m with you. i puked in my mouth a little when i realized those were not overturned trash cans, but overturned poo cans.
I was surprised by the wind, it pulled a windchime off our back porch and knocked down several trees over around Holcomb. Also knocked over one of the portapotties by the house construction. Price I’m willing to pay for some decent rain.
Time to ask the A&P for some more money
Glad nobody was hurt.
Some damage? I drove by, more like flattened, totaled and nothing but a pile of scrap!
Tents are safe? The guy with the WAC is full of crap. Channel 5 get your story straight. Go look for yourself. If this facility was occupied with the public, no telling what the death count would have been. Fayetteville would have made the national news. Besides, who wants to pay the see a concert and smell chicken crap.
In the second picture, it looks like the metal siding got ripped off a quonset hut. No way a tent would stand up to winds like that.